HMM GDANSK

2020/23,938TEU She was bound from London Gateway to Jebel Ali when she landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham this afternoon. It was pretty dark when these photos where taken (14:30) due to cloud cover

                                                Photos taken from Berry Head 24/11

 HMM DUBLIN

She is the 4th out of 12 new 24k megamax vessels built for HMM by Daewoo and Samsung - She is 1 of the 7 built by Daewoo. She was bound from Rotterdam to Singapore on the FE2 service when she landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham today in the mist and rain. 

  Photos taken from Berry Head when she was approaching the pilot station and heading south 

                                                             after landing the pilot

 AURIGA LEADER

New to NYK Line Japan in 2008 she is the worlds first partially solar powered vehicle carrier. Over 300 solar arrays produce 10% of the overall power requirement of her. She boarded her deep sea pilot at Brixham today whilst underway from Livorno, Italy - Zeebrugge, Belgium with approximately 5,600 vehicles onboard at the time.

                      Photos taken from Berry Head when she was turning to 110 degrees

 ONE ALTAIR

Seen from Berry Head this afternoon when she was slow steaming approx. 12-15 miles east of Berry Head

                                             Photo taken from Berry Head 19/11/20

 QUEEN VICTORIA & QUEEN MARY 2

Both are seen anchored in Babbacombe Bay due to the current COVID cruise restrictions this afternoon. A little while after QUEEN VICTORIA upped anchored and headed for Southampton

                                                     Photo taken from Berry Head 

 RCC ANTWERP

She landed her deepsea pilot at Brixham this afternoon whilst underway from Bremerhaven to the far east via Suez. She is still in partial Hoegh Autoliners livery from when she was on lease to them. She is my 42nd vehicle carrier spotted this year

                     Photo taken from Berry Head when she was swinging to land the pilot

 ONE ALTAIR (ex. NYK ALTAIR)

Underway from Singapore - Rotterdam on her maiden voyage to N. Europe in ONE colours. She boarded her deep sea pilot at Brixham this morning and will land him back here next week, she's early for her berth into Rotterdam on the 21st so is slow steaming 12-15 miles east of Berry Head until tomorrow.  

                Photo taken from Berry Head after she had turned heading east for Rotterdam